A Time and a Place
Helen Mort....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 118 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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'Seen from antiquity / you gain the Icarus thing'
Heron as grumpy old man
Ways of looking at a heron 4: the begrudging avian take off
Featured poet: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
One of the most exciting things about my job (as an academic and as a freelancer) is the opportunity to meet and learn from writers who are doing interesting projects, who are thinking about things which expand my mind, stuff I’ve never eve...
Heron as 'poem of ancient slowness'
& heron as dinner
Ways of looking at a heron no. 3
'The line which says woodland and cries hunger'
Strokestown Park, home to the international Strokestown Poetry Festival 2026.
Strokestown, Ireland. The rain here has the character of my grandfather, my dad’s dad: it asserts itself in these little, guttural outbursts. Infrequent, intense...
Grief heron
Ways of looking at a heron no. 3: Heron as Grim Reaper
I’m running with Trey by the canal towards Tinsley, where the cooling towers once stood. She grew up here. We pass psycho geese, interesting graffiti, pissed fishermen, a man in camo g...
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Poet, novelist, non-fiction writer published by Chatto & Windus and Ebury. Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Banff Grand Prize. Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. FRSL.
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